Story of my Italian horse - Fiat Punto 90HP. EDIT: Sold!

This is a discussion on Story of my Italian horse - Fiat Punto 90HP. EDIT: Sold! within Test-Drives & Initial Ownership Reports, part of the Team-BHP Reviews category; Originally Posted by raj_5004
Fitted Roots Windtone 90 horns today. It sounds like the Skoda/BMW. I am a big fan ...

I am not happy with FIAT as far as fit & finish is concerned. I had thought, being a tough & heavy car (like my scorpio), the Punto will be free from rattles & squeaks. I am proved wrong.

I drive my car very gingerly. Once in a while, it has gone over a unnoticed pothole or scraped its bottom, but no rough treatment to it till now.

Yet, in just 9000 kms, the car is squeaking & rattling from 4 different places - rear parcel tray panel, dashboard left side, left front door, inside dash near steering column. To be fair, the noises are really low & we wont be able to hear them even with low volume music but it really bothers me. I like a tightly screwed car devoid of any noises, except mechanical. Did not expect this from you FIAT. Hyundai i20s are built much better.

Meanwhile, a rick scrapped my car yesterday leaving a small scratch on it's bumper. I love my car a lot & cant see scars on it. I took it to the FIAT A.S.S yesterday & they quoted 3k for the small scratch. More than money, the issue is, when I gave my car to them for painting earlier, paint spots were visible on my windscreen, side windows & even my alloys. It was a very shoddy work. So this time I have given it to a local garage. They did a pretty good job on my innova. My car has never been to a local garage before. I will get the car today evening. Please pray they do a good job!

raj_5004 sorry to hear about the scratch and I know how it feels when your car suffers for no fault of yours !! :(
I hope everything works out well.

Is there a solution for the rear parcel tray rattle which seems to have cropped up slowly but surely in my Car as well. Though I own a Getz, I am posting this question here since raj has a similar issue on his Punto which almost as new as my Getz.

I have tried double sided tapes and even tried stuffing a cloth in between the panel raj but to no avail. :(
In my old car (Santro) I had speaker boxes fitted in the boot which had eliminated the panel completely. In Getz, the rear shock absorbers housing protrudes into the boot and hence this box is not possible. Any other ideas or suggestions please ?

In fact Punto is a good car.But we people are not that much generous to sell it at a throw away prices as a used car. Being under Tata's care due to one or the other reason though it is good it lost its charm. The white with black roof is really so cute.